Event: White House Call-In Day


Date & Time: April 5, 2011 9 AM-5 PM Eastern


Number to call: (202) 456-1111


*Please remember to call before 5 PM Eastern*

Nearly 3,000 Demand Progress members have pledged to call the White House today to urge President Obama to keep his campaign promises and fix the PATRIOT Act.  You'll be joined by thousands of activists from groups like the ACLU, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and more.

Please check in by filling out the form at the bottom-right so we can report an impressive number of calls made.  And here's a script you can use to call:

I am calling today to urge the President to restore crucial checks and balances to the PATRIOT ACT, in order to:

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Protect the privacy of our Internet and financial records  by requiring that secret National Security Letters and Section 215 orders can only be used to obtain records linked to suspected spies and terrorists, not innocent Americans.


• Protect the free speech of those who receive such secret demands by ensuring that they can speak freely unless the government can demonstrate to a court that national security would be seriously harmed.


• Stop blank-check "John Doe" roving wiretaps - by requiring foreign intelligence investigators to identify their surveillance target before they can get a "roving" wiretap order that lets them spy on unspecified phone and Internet accounts -- just like criminal investigators have to.


• And to let the "lone wolf" wiretapping provision expire.  This dangerous authority unconstitutionally allows the government to bypass traditional protections to spy on people inside the U.S.
who have no link to any foreign organization. This provision has never been used--nor should it ever be used.

President Obama should keep his promises and reform the PATRIOT Act.

I am calling on him to veto any PATRIOT Act renewal bill from Congress that does not include these needed reforms.